Leader of The Highland
Council, Margaret Davidson, is encouraging people to respond to the Local
Government Boundary Commission for Scotland’s 12 week consultation, which was
launched today (30 July).

The Council put forward three
proposals in their response to the Commission’s consultation with Local
Authorities. The transfer of the polling district of Cawdor into Nairn
was accepted.

Councillor Davidson
said: “We welcome the decision to agree to the Cawdor proposal, but it is
disappointing that our other suggestions were not accepted. We would
encourage as many people as possible to consider the Boundary Commissions’
proposals and respond to their consultation by their deadline of 22 October
2015.”

This proposal would result in
an additional member for Caithness (increasing from 8 to 9) and would see the
overall total of proposed members for the Highland Council increase from 74 to
75.

2. Nairn - Cawdor &
Culloden - Ardersier

Transfer Cawdor
into Nairn by:

Moving Polling
District I18G with an estimated 594 electors from the proposed Culloden Ward.
This would create a Nairn and Cawdor ward with an estimated 10,182 electors,
3.3% above parity.

Transfer
Ardersier back into the Culloden ward by:

Moving part of Polling District I18F with an estimated 1,157 electors in Ardersier from the proposed Nairn and Ardersier ward to the proposed Culloden ward. This would create a Culloden and Ardersier ward with an estimated 8,305 electors, 12.4% above parity.

3. Black
Isle

Retain the Black Isle ward as it is currently configured by:

Moving parts of the Redcastle
Polling Districts R10A (S) & R10C (W) with an estimated electorate of
366 from the proposed Dingwall and Seaforth ward back to the Black Isle
ward, which would result in the Black Isle ward having an estimated
electorate of 8,647 which would be 17% above parity with the proposed
three member ward.

The proposed
Dingwall and Seaforth ward would be reduced by an estimated 366 electors, which
would result in it being 2.6% below parity.